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Fokkema, Jacob; Jansen, Leo; Mulder, Karel – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2005
Purpose--To present the challenge of sustainable development, the way in which technology can address that challenge and the task of engineering education to train engineers for it. Design/methodology/approach--The paper describes briefly the history of the environmental and sustainability discourse in The Netherlands, as a densely populated…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Appropriate Technology
Carey, David; Ernst, Ekkehard; Oyomopito, Rebecca; Theisens, Jelte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been relatively weak in recent years. Knowledge creation in the Netherlands is strong -- scientific publications per capita are the sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries…
Descriptors: Productivity, Postsecondary Education, Research and Development, Factor Analysis